Lauterpacht, Hersch "Recognition in International Law," Cambridge University Press 2013.

Explains the difference between a "lawful", and "unlawful" combatant; pursuant to terms used during the War of Terror, (also known as, "belligerency recognition.")

The Patriot Act disrupts all potential organized challenges to U.S. rule, prior to achievement of formal recognition; making them "unlawful."

The Global War of Terror renewed the doctrines of slavery, by declaring the recognized rights of any person opposing the U.S. null and void, and property of the U.S. as Prisoners of War / Slaves without recognized legitimate authority or government; while renewing privateering, piracy and marauding through military contractors with unlimited global jurisdiction.
It is preventing opposition to it's rule (unpopular regime,) through various tactics, most notably network centric warfare, ie the destruction of opposition leadership through torture and state sponsored assassinations; (in addition to psychological warfare techniques involving deception, punitive psychology, and serious games involving eg. cyclic majorities.)
This book outlines the legal theories behind these concepts. Even if some day it is found that the present post-9/11 political regime operating as the pretended US Government is illegitimate the American people will still be held responsible for it's debts, and war crimes.
Fascinating and in depth examination of case-law, history, and legal theory of details regarding insurgencies, coups, et al.; particularly the right to use of force, by whom and when in the context of state failure or incompetence (lack of state protection), including refugee issues.

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Yoo, John, and James C. Ho. International law and the war on terrorism. University of Calif., School of Law, 2003.
["In other words, al Qaeda terrorists do not escape the laws of war because they are non-state actors. Instead, they are unlawful belligerents."]

GWOT as a Banker's War Against National Sovereignty: From Nation States to Market States (The New World War)
https://archive.org/details/gwot_pop-sovereign_IPE/

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Also see:

[Insurgency]
[Belligerency]
[Rules of Engagement (ROE)]
[Microviolence (Terrorism)]
[Occupation]
[Biafra]
[Rump States / Weak States / State Failure]
[Regime Theory]
[Compact of Free Association (COFA)]
[Red Series / Green Series]
[Refugee Recognition]
[Insurgency]
[Global War on Terror (GWOT)]
[Autogolpe]
[Piracy]
['The Ambrose Light' (Colombian Piracy)]
['Porto Rico' (Puerto Rico)]
[State Terrorism]
[Extraordinary Rendition]
[Privateers (Private Violence)]
[Private Military Corporations (PMC)]
[Marauding]
[Proslavery]
[National Security (Manpower)]
[Electoral Autocracy]
[Private Security Regimes]
[Right of Insurgents to Recognition]
[Private Unauthorized War (The Marianna Flora :: 24 U.S., 1825)]

[American Apartheid]

[Westphalian Sovereignty]

[Enemy Combatant]

[Gagauzia]

[Marquetalia Republic]

Guide to the Analysis of Insurgency, (CIA)
https://archive.org/details/open-insurgency

Was “Biafra” at Any Time a State in International Law?
https://archive.org/details/ijalaye1971/

Law of belligerent occupation
https://archive.org/details/law-of-belligerent-occupation_11

Nondum Cessante Bello
https://archive.org/details/1114115

Autogolpe, (Self-coup)
https://archive.org/details/ics-amalamud-se-esta/

State reform, coalitions, and the neoliberal autogolpe in Peru
https://archive.org/details/mauceri-1995

Grupos Autodefensas: Community Self Defense (State Failure)
https://archive.org/details/grupos-autodefensas_latam/

SANREMO HANDBOOK ON  RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
https://archive.org/details/roe-handbook-english

Nathan Leites (International Security Affairs): Microviolence & Terrorism
https://archive.org/details/leites_nathan_isa/

International Security Affairs (ISA): Security Regimes
https://archive.org/details/intl_sec_af_isa/

Unmixing: After the Empire (Rump States)
https://archive.org/details/rump-states_sucession-empire/

Weak States (State Failure)
https://archive.org/details/weak-states_state-failure/

State Terrorism
https://archive.org/details/state-terror

Red Series - U.S. vs. Karl Brandt et al.
https://archive.org/details/nt-nazi-vol-i/

Green Series - NT War Criminals Vol VII
https://archive.org/details/nt-war-criminals-vol-vii/

Medina Standard: Command Responsibility & War Crimes
https://archive.org/details/medina_war_crimes/

War, Piracy, and Slavery
https://archive.org/details/garlan1987

Richard A. Falk (War Crimes, Law, and Ethics)
https://archive.org/details/ra_falk/

U.S. Civil War, (AUMF)
https://archive.org/details/03-6696-p-1/

Popular Sovereign Movements: Republicanism, Monarchy, and Globalization
https://archive.org/details/popular_sovereign_movements-globalization/

Operation Border Exchange: From Nation State to Market State
https://archive.org/details/op_border_x/

Graham H. Turbiville: Borders, Police, and Corruption (Security Regimes)
https://archive.org/details/turbiville_graham-h/

Schmitt, Michael N. "State-sponsored assassination in international and domestic Law." Yale J. Int'l L. 17 (1992): 609.

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